A co-founder of the Pirate Bay file-sharing service who had fled from Swedish authorities was nabbed at the border between Thailand and Laos, according to local news reports Tuesday.

Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, 36, who was convicted of assisting in copyright infringement by a Swedish court in 2009, was arrested by Thai immigration police as he tried to enter the country from neighboring Laos, officials told reporters from Reuters and the Associated Press.

Neij and three others, who collectively operated Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent website that linked to illegal copies of movies, music, digital games and other software, were sentenced to prison terms and ordered by a Swedish court to pay multi-million-dollar fines. The one-year jail sentences were later reduced to four months on appeal.

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